Tuesday, October 21, 2008

Lightning claim Pettinger off waivers

That's the risk a GM takes putting a guy on waivers in the first place. Pettinger was placed on re-entry waivers as the Canucks have injury problems, as was Kyle Wellwood, and Tampa scooped up the depth forward. Maybe this was Gillis' plan all along since Pettinger cleared waivers a few days back. He wanted to get rid of him. Who knows for sure.So what now? Is it time for Michel Ouellet to get a chance? The Canucks need another winger for tonight's game. Stay tuned.Good luck in Tampa, Matt. Thanks for all your hard work here.

I believe it has something to do with the fact that Ouellet was already in the AHL when we picked him up, but I'm not terribly certain. I'm almost positive though he'd had to clear re-entry waivers to play; if claimed from re-entry, Canucks get hit with half of his cap hit like we did with Pettinger which is 625K.